The 800-room downtown Omni Hotel, going up on Fifth Avenue between Demonbreun and Korean Veterans Boulevard, is scheduled to open in October.

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

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Just two years ago, it was still unclear whether Nashville's new Music City Center would in fact be the jolt for new development that boosters had predicted.

And while it hasn't spurred new retail stores, commercial buildings or condos, the hotel boom is happening. In fact, it's a boom reverberating across downtown, from West End to The Gulch, as surface parking lots get turned into places for tourists and conventiongoers to sleep. ...